Part Number for Low Band "Ball Mount" antenna
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Part Number for Low Band "Ball Mount" antenna
Trying to find it on MOL is coming up nothing. Does anyone have an MOL part number?
If it helps, I'm gonna be using is on ham freqs.
If it helps, I'm gonna be using is on ham freqs.
Scott
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You may be out of luck trying to find a full length quarterwave mobile in the M catalog. Seems like now everybody wants physically small, so the base loaded quarterwaves have taken over the market. PCTEL/Maxrad still makes one, 30-54 Mhz, full length stainless steel, chrome plated ball base, etc., Tessco SKU 462098. But be prepared to pay for it...list is $138.05. Of course, there are cheaper knockoffs available from other places, but I assumed you wanted good quality and that's why you were looking at Motorola.
Seems like fullwave quarter wave mobile ants went out with the Mocom 70 stuff. If you're willing to look at something used, try your local hamfest...be lots cheaper than a new Maxrad.
Seems like fullwave quarter wave mobile ants went out with the Mocom 70 stuff. If you're willing to look at something used, try your local hamfest...be lots cheaper than a new Maxrad.
I have a Motorola branded ball mount here. I also have a Hustler SSM-1 (ball and spring sold together) that aside from not being stamped "Motorola" on the insulator, appears absolutely identical to the M mount. I'd be willing to bet they came from the same factory. And the Hustler has held up just as the M ball has.
Ham Radio Outlet is selling the SSM-1 for $49.95.
As for the stainless whip, that's more problematic. You may be able to buy just the mounting ferrule from M, but I don't know. The cheaper whips have the mounting threads welded on, so the only way to trim the whip is from the top. With the mounting ferrule you can trim the bottom and set the whip with a set-screw. I consider that a much better arrangment. I have one mounting ferrule but no idea where I got it. I'm thinking it came with the M ball I got from fleapay. I now use the ferrule I have on TOP of a whip and screw my Hustler HF resonators to the whip that way.
Be careful about cheap balls (heh heh.) Many of them don't have teeth on the ball to bite into the plastic to keep the whip upright. That nut is big, but not THAT big. Even with my Hustler HF antenna on it, mine stays upright.
Check out the Hustler ball and decide for yourself. But I'd sure go that way before spending $138 on M.
Ham Radio Outlet is selling the SSM-1 for $49.95.
As for the stainless whip, that's more problematic. You may be able to buy just the mounting ferrule from M, but I don't know. The cheaper whips have the mounting threads welded on, so the only way to trim the whip is from the top. With the mounting ferrule you can trim the bottom and set the whip with a set-screw. I consider that a much better arrangment. I have one mounting ferrule but no idea where I got it. I'm thinking it came with the M ball I got from fleapay. I now use the ferrule I have on TOP of a whip and screw my Hustler HF resonators to the whip that way.
Be careful about cheap balls (heh heh.) Many of them don't have teeth on the ball to bite into the plastic to keep the whip upright. That nut is big, but not THAT big. Even with my Hustler HF antenna on it, mine stays upright.
Check out the Hustler ball and decide for yourself. But I'd sure go that way before spending $138 on M.
Chris,
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The complete kit. mount, spring, whip & whip adaptor, coax......
Correction, that is less whip.
Correction, that is less whip.
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